[Technical decisions in surgical treatment of peripapillary duodenal ulcer].

Objective: To develop the surgical technology for prevention of duodenal, biliary and pancreatic hypertension after stomach resection for peripapillary duodenal ulcers.

Material And Methods: The authors have an experience of 413 stomach resections for peptic ulcer disease. Major duodenal papilla was involved in destruction in 15 cases.

[Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome].

Aim: To study the diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS).

Material And Methods: Eight patients (5 men and 3 women), mean age 38,9±1,4 years, with WKS developed due to acute gastrointestinal tract (GIT) disease (3 patients), the exacerbation of chronic GIT disease with malabsorption (2 patients) and after surgery on the upper GIT (3 patients) were included in the study.

Results: The disease manifested with consciousness disturbance, symptoms of ataxia, eye movement disorders and bulbar syndrome that developed after 24-48 h.

METHOD OF OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF POSTNECROTIC CYSTS OF THE PANCREAS.

An analysis of treatment results was made in 26 patients with postnecrotic cysts of different degree of maturity. The laparotomy with trans-gastral cystogastrostomy on the external drainage were performed on 11 patients. A new modified operation underwent 15 patients.

[Contemporary low-invasive, videoendoscopic and organ-sparing abdominal operations].

The paper presents the results of low-invasive, videosurgical, and organ-sparing operations, developed and performed by the authors. Original low-invasive techniques of external, external-and-internal and internal bile-duct drainage, and bile-duct endoprosthesis replacement have been performed in 25 patients with benign and malignant bile-duct strictures. Transcutaneous puncture drainage operations, including those combined with an original method of transdrainage sclerotherapy with nitric oxide, have been performed in 93 patients with postnecrotic pancreatic cysts.